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Age- and Sex-Dependent Patterns of Gut Microbial Diversity in Human Adults

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de la Cuesta-Zuluaga, Jacobo, Kelley, Scott T., Chen, Yingfeng, Escobar, Juan S., Mueller, Noel T., Ley, Ruth E., McDonald, Daniel, Huang, Shi, Swafford, Austin D., Knight, Rob, Thackray, Varykina G.·2019·mSystems

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Microorganisms in the human gut play a role in health and disease, and in adults higher gut biodiversity has been linked to better health. Since gut microorganisms may be pivotal in the development of microbial therapies, understanding the factors that shape gut biodiversity is of utmost interest. We performed large-scale analyses of the relationship of age and sex to gut bacterial diversity in adult cohorts from four geographic regions: the United States, the United Kingdom, Colombia, and China. In the U.S., U.K., and Colombian cohorts, bacterial biodiversity correlated positively with age in young adults but plateaued at about age 40 years, with no positive association being found in middle-aged adults. Young, but not middle-aged, adult women had higher gut bacterial diversity than men, a pattern confirmed via supervised machine learning. Interestingly, in the Chinese cohort, minimal associations were observed between gut biodiversity and age or sex. Our results highlight the patterns of adult gut biodiversity and provide a framework for future research.

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de la Cuesta-Zuluaga, J., Kelley, S. T., Chen, Y., Escobar, J. S., Mueller, N. T., Ley, R. E., McDonald, D., Huang, S., Swafford, A. D., Knight, R., & Thackray, V. G.
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2019-08-27
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4
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4
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2379-5077 (ISSN-L)
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de la Cuesta-Zuluaga, J., Kelley, S. T., Chen, Y., Escobar, J. S., Mueller, N. T., Ley, R. E., McDonald, D., Huang, S., Swafford, A. D., Knight, R., & Thackray, V. G. (2019). Age- and Sex-Dependent Patterns of Gut Microbial Diversity in Human Adults. mSystems. https://doi.org/10.1128/msystems.00261-19

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